The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association football guideThe official rules book and record book of college football . m #»=. SPALDINGS OFFICIAL FOOT BALL GUIDE. 15 extremities and a pass for a long end run was not wortli the riskinvolved. As soon as the demand for greater distance was enforcedthe premium upon possession of the ball was correspondingly lessenedand this, in connection with the on-side kick, the restriction of drop-ping a lineman back and the forward pass, produced a game of morebrilliant possibilities, less severe pounding, more strategy and of agenerally far more op
The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association football guideThe official rules book and record book of college football . m #»=. SPALDINGS OFFICIAL FOOT BALL GUIDE. 15 extremities and a pass for a long end run was not wortli the riskinvolved. As soon as the demand for greater distance was enforcedthe premium upon possession of the ball was correspondingly lessenedand this, in connection with the on-side kick, the restriction of drop-ping a lineman back and the forward pass, produced a game of morebrilliant possibilities, less severe pounding, more strategy and of agenerally far more open character. Not the most sanguine, even ofthe rule makers, could, however, have hoped for such an excellentbalance of all departments of play as eventuated from these verymarked changes in the code. Not kicking, nor forward passing, norrunning assumed an undue prominence, and as a result interest wasnot only aroused but consistently sustained from the very opening ofthe play to the final call of the whistle. The new rules made wayalso for the lighter, more active and aggressive dodger. There wasstill plenty of room for the heavy
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